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Swastik

#13,649 in 2025Boys' name

A triangular crest-jewel, through स्वस्तिक

Swastik has been given to 18 babies in the U.S. since 2014. In 2025 it ranked #13,649 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Swastik, 2025

1 in 663,000

Swastik over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Swastik: meaning, origin, and history

A triangular crest-jewel, through स्वस्तिक

Sanskrit

What Swastik means

Swastik belongs to the name family reached through Swastik → स्वस्तिक. Its meaning is “a triangular crest-jewel”.

Origin, language, and formation

Swastik is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Swastik comes through Sanskrit स्वस्तिक.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include स्वस्तिक.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 18 boys were recorded with the name Swastik between 2014 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2014; its best national rank was #10,563 in 2014.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Swastik?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#13,649
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Swastik sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Swastik. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Swastiks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Swastik was born before 2024 — so the typical Swastik is around 1 today.

Median birth year
2024
About 1 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
61.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
18
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 61.1% of all recorded uses (11).

Is Swastik rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−1,488
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
71.4%
Peak was 2014 (7)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#10,563
2014

Swastik around the world

Where Swastik ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2022–2024
    #5,120
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2009–2009
    #708
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Swastik by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#13,649
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#10,563
2014
Peak year
2014
7 that year
First recorded
2014
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
18
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Swastik

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Swastik

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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